Anthony Burns was a freedom seeker who escaped from Virginia to Massachusetts, only to be captured and returned to slavery by federal authorities following a controversial and expensive rendition hearing in June 1854.
ESSAYS:Blackett //Barker //Finkelman // Grover // Oakes // Pinsker // Sinha
ROLES: Abolitionist // Freedom Seeker
Anthony Burns ( House Divided Project)
James Burr was an abolitionist convicted of slave stealing in Missouri in 1841.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Samuel D. Burris (1813-1863) was a free Black man and Underground Railroad operative.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Andrew Butler was a proslavery US senator from South Carolina.
ESSAYS: Oakes
ROLES: Proslavery Politician
Benjamin Butler was a US general during the Civil War who developed the contraband decision.
ESSAYS: Manning
ROLES:
Elizabeth Buffum Chace lived in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, where she directed freedom seekers to the Providence and Worcester Railroad.
ESSAYS: Grover
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Samuel Chadwick was a New Bedford, Massachusetts merchant who helped freedom seekers escape from Virginia by boat.
ESSAYS: Newby-Alexander
ROLES: UGRR Operative
William Chaplin (1796-1871) was an abolitionist and Underground Railroad operative arrested and imprisoned for four months by Washington, DC authorities.
ROLES: UGRR Operative
Charley was an enslaved man who provided military intelligence to US forces in North Carolina.
ESSAYS: Manning
ROLES: Freedom Seeker
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